Dylan: "If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died."

Dylan: "I don't think I'm tangible to myself."

Dylan: "All I can do is be me, whoever that is."

Dylan: "I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."

Dylan: "I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."

Dylan: "I'm inconsistent, even to myself."

Dylan: "Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."

Dylan: "No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

Dylan: "Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about."

Dylan: "A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."

Dylan: "I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

Dylan: "The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."

Dylan: "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

Dylan: "There is nothing so stable as change."

Dylan: "To live outside the law, you must be honest."

Dylan: "Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else."

Dylan: "I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."

Dylan: "What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."

Dylan: "Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

Dylan: "All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

Dylan: "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."

Dylan: "I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."

Dylan: "I can't stand to see myself on television."

Dylan: "If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."

Dylan: "People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

Dylan: "I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work."

Dylan: "Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."

Dylan: "Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work."

Dylan: "It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring."

Dylan: "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Dylan: "I think I have a dualistic nature."

Dylan: "Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."

Dylan: "Money doesn't talk, it swears."

Dylan: "Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that."

Dylan: "I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."

Dylan: "You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself."

Dylan: "I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation."

Dylan: "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Dylan: "You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."

Dylan: "Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."

Dylan: "The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed."

Dylan: "People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them."